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How I make tea in 2025

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:30:00 +0000

As Orwell says:

If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points.

– A Nice Cup of Tea

Software

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:45:00 +0000

A few weeks ago I described the hardware I’m currently using. Today, I’m writing about the software I use on an almost daily basis.

Hardware

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:45:00 +0000

In which I explain the hardware I’m using in 2025 and try not to sound like a cliché or a brag.

25-20-15-10-5

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:07:57 +0000

Inspired by Jeremy Keith’s article of the same title I reflected on the last quarter century of my life.

Albums of 2024

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:51:54 +0000

I didn’t listen to as many albums this year but these were my favourites.

Hello, World!

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 18:30:00 +0100

As a first step to making my Sudoku game I’ve written a very simple Rust “Hello, World” that runs on Lambda. My plan is to expand this code into a noughts-and-crosses game before tackling Sudoku.

Sudoku

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Fri, 17 May 2024 09:20:00 +0100

I’m going to make a multi-player Sudoku game. I’m going to write as much of it as I can in Rust and run it on AWS Lambda, using DynamoDB as the datastore.

Albums of 2023

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000

It gets later every year.

Albums of 2022

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The only thing I can be sure to write every year.

Albums of 2021

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000

I didn’t restrict myself to albums released in 2021 this year and included albums from 2020 that I discovered in 2021.

Albums of 2020

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Better late than never? Regardless; here are a few of the albums I enjoyed in 2020.

Albums of 2019

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000

This year’s instalment of “nobody asked, but here they are anyway”. Here are a few albums I enjoyed in 2019.

Albums of 2018

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:48:08 +0000

Nobody asked but it’s that time of year. Here are some of the albums I enjoyed over the last twelve months.

Edinburgh two–two

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 22:05:38 +0100

In the spirit of rebuilding & relaunching things while on holiday, today I rebuilt Edinburgh2. I’ve owned the edinburgh2.com domain for over ten years but the original site was looking a little tired and unloved: time for an update!

When I first registered the domain I had a grand vision that it could become the online home of the Edinburgh Tech Scene: a list of meetups, a blog aggregator, a jobs board, a discussion forum, the list goes on.

Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) Codes

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 16:24:26 +0100

Under the arrangement the SMWS has with distillers, the Society undertakes not to put the distiller’s name on the bottle or to publish a list which matches the numbers to the distilleries.

Here’s a list of the numbers matched to the distilleries. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿unless denoted otherwise.

Hello, again

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 21:50:06 +0100

Wow, it’s been a while since I wrote a blog post.

CV

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 15:18:51 +0100

John Sutherland

john@sneeu.com / +44 7776 055 955

I am an engineering manager & technical lead with over 15 years of industry experience in scaling software and teams in fast growing environments.

Employment

Lead Engineer at StarStock, November 2019–Present

StarStock is a marketplace to store, buy, and sell sports cards. As the first engineering hire I was responsible for setting the technical direction and developing the first version of our product.

John

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 15:18:51 +0100

John Sutherland

I am:

@sneeu on GitHub
sneeu on Last.fm
sneeu on Spotify
@john@sneeu.com on Mastodon
@sneeu on Twitter

Functionally Competent

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:20:43 +0100

Here’s a piece of somewhat–ugly, single–purpose Python code, what it does is not particularly interesting:

Things I Say

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Things I Say

1.01³⁶⁵ = 37.78
70% agreement; 100% commitment.
Automate, automate, automate. Then automate some more.
MVP MVP MVP.
Make it work; make it right; make it fast.
MoSCoW: Must; Should; Could; Would.
Situation; Task; Action; Result
Slow is smooth; smooth is fast.
The Boy Scout Rule: Always leave the code better than you found it.
Try again; fail again; fail better.
If this were easy what would it look like?
Ask ChatGPT

Things To Do

john@sneeu.com (John Sutherland) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Things To Do

Ask for feedback
Complete a DuoLingo lesson
Do 10 push-ups
Drink some water
Empty a bin
Find a pairing partner
Fold the laundry
Go for a walk
Listen to Discover Weekly
Listen to Release Radar
Listen to a record
Look-out running kit
Make a cup of coffee
Make a cup of tea
Move the laundry on
Play some guitar
Put something away
Reach-out to a friend
Read a few pages
Reply to an email
Review an open pull-request
Start a pomodoro session
Stretch
Take a photo
Tidy the stairs
Unload the dishwasher
Write

sneeu.com

How I make tea in 2025

Software

Hardware

25-20-15-10-5

Blogroll

Albums of 2024

Hello, World!

Sudoku

Albums of 2023

Albums of 2022

Albums of 2021

Albums of 2020

Albums of 2019

Albums of 2018

Edinburgh two–two

Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) Codes

Hello, again

CV

John Sutherland

Employment

Lead Engineer at StarStock, November 2019–Present

John

John Sutherland

Functionally Competent

Things I Say

Things I Say

Things To Do

Things To Do